- I spent about a year as an intern at a publishing company, so I've seen both sides of the slush pile.

Less vital stuff:

- I am a caffeine addict, pure and simple. I got through my first three years of college drinking multiple cans of Red Bull every day; after a stern lecture from my dentist, I've switched to coffee.

- I love National Novel Writing Month, and participate every year (since 2005). I've succeeded 3 out of 5 years. I also do something called National Novel Writing Day, where you try to write a novel (40K-50K words) in 24 hours, and have succeeded.

- I'm very into cooking and baking and food in general.

- In addition to English, I have an unofficial minor in Computer Science (in other words, I found out I liked it when it was too late to switch my major).

What I'm working on:

Let's see. I'm taking a writing workshop at school right now with Paul Harding, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and am freaking out over the quality of a short story I'm about to turn in. I'm in the middle of completely rewriting my dearly beloved novel, Kinesthesia. I'm very bad at sticking to just one project, so I work on multiple things at once.

That's probably more than anyone wanted to know. Like Shayda, I do have a personal writing/cooking/life blog, See Girl Write. Stay tuned for our first real post on writing and publishing here at Book-Bound Writers!